Wednesday, 31 July 2013

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love
everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive
it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last
to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Our job is to love others without
stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business.
What we are asked to do is to love and this love itself will render both
ourselves and our neighbours worthy. - Thomas
Merton

When we love, we always strive to
become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are,
everything around us becomes better too. - Paulo
Coelho

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good
in them, the more you will establish good in yourself. - Paramahansa Yogananda

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without
changing you into someone other than yourself. - Unknown

Love me when I least deserve it because that is when I really need
it. - Swedish Proverb

Sunday, 28 July 2013

A good plan
implemented today is better than a perfect plan implemented tomorrow. - George
Patton

A good plan is like a road map: it
shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. - H.
Stanley Judd

All time management begins with
planning. - Tom Greening

Create a
definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready
or not, to put this plan into action. - Napoleon Hill

Every well built
house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the
nature of a set of blueprints. - Napoleon Hill

Failing to plan is planning to
fail. - Alan Lakein

If the first plan which you adopt
does not work successfully, replace, it with a new plan; if this new plan fails
to work, replace it in turn with still another, and so on, until you find a
plan which does work. - Unknown

If you do not plan, it is all
right – just as long as you are not surprised when you finally fail. - Unknown

If you have accomplished all that
you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough. - Edward Everett
Hale

If your plans have failed, ask
yourself if there is a better plan waiting to be discovered. - Unknown

It
is a bad plan that cannot be changed. - Publilius Syrus

Lay plans for the accomplishment
of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting
with it when small. - Lao-tzu

No one plans to fail, many fail to
plan. - Unknown

Plan for this world as if you
expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die
tomorrow. - Ibn Gabirol

Plan for tomorrow but live for
today. - Unknown

Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something
about it now. - Alan Lakein

Plans are only good intentions
unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. - Peter Drucker

The best plan is to profit by the
folly of others. - Pliny The Elder

The most intelligent man living
cannot succeed in any undertaking without plans which are practical and
workable. Just keep this fact in mind and remember, when your plans fail, that
temporary defeat is not permanent failure. It may only mean that your plans
have not been sound. Build other plans. Start all over again. - Unknown

The purpose of planning is to
reduce the uncertainty of the future. It is not meant to eliminate it. - Unknown

You can never
plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke

You don’t always need a plan.
Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go and see what happens. - Mandy Hale

Thursday, 25 July 2013

Retirement is not the closing of
an old door, but the opening of a new one. It is an exciting approach to an
infinite variety of new testing of a man’s ability, new stretchings of his
mind, new releases for his energies and abilities. All that is required is that
he must recognize new challenge when it presents itself, and accept it zestfully.
If he has been doing this all his life, it will be easier for him in the later
years, but in one form or another the opportunity awaits everyone, if he will
only seek it. -Clarence Randall

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

If you don’t like where you are
headed … you are always free to choose
another path, to change your mind, to take a detour, to turn around or forge
ahead in a new direction. It’s time to realize that YOU are in command as the
driver of your own vehicle on the freeway of life. Get comfortable behind the
wheel and enjoy the journey… love your life. - Unknown

A meaningful life is not being
rich, being popular, being highly educated, or being perfect. It is about being
real, being humble, being strong, and being able to share ourselves and touch
the lives of others. It is only then that we could have a full, happy and
contented life. - Mar Razalan

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see
it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent
not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. - Unknown

Saturday, 20 July 2013

A consistent soul believes in
destiny, a capricious one in chance. - Benjamin Disraeli

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds
and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or
inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett
Marden

Happy is the soul that has
something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with
hope. - Oliver G.
Wilson

Never
does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge, and
dares to forgive an injury. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

Not in achievement, but in
endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance
with the infinite. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

Friday, 19 July 2013

The big things
that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning,
but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.
-William Feather

We are what we
think; as we desire so do we become! By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we
either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer
and learn. -J.Todd Ferrier

Most of our censure of others is
only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the
speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of
falsehood. -Tryon Edwards

Give yourself permission to
immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need
to explain or make sense of it. Just trust what you feel. - Unknown

Sometimes all you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not
obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the
best. - Unknown

Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Our notions of happiness entrap us. We forget they are just ideas;
our ideas of happiness can actually prevent us from being happy. We fail to see
the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a
belief that happiness should take a particular form. - Thich Hanh

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in
which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good
health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. - Thomas Jefferson

We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting
something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do
have. - Unknown

Happiness cannot be owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the
spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude. - Denis Waitley

Happiness blossoms where seeds of kindness have been thoughtfully
planted. - Unknown

The secret of being happy is accepting where you are in life and
making the most out everyday. - Unknown

Happiness is always knocking on your door; you just have to invite
it in. - Unknown

I have decided to be happy because it is good for my health. - Voltaire

Tuesday, 16 July 2013

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so
borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but
write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is the revelation of a
feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader
recognizes as his own. - Salvatore Quasimodo

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. - Edgar
Allan Poe

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth– the
true poet is very near the oracle. - Edwin Hubble Chapin

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest
laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of
saddest thought. - Percy Shelly

Sunday, 14 July 2013

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H. L. Mencken

A politician is
a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can
save the ship. - Ivern Ball

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both
ears to the ground. - H. L. Mencken

Always vote for
principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest
reflection that your vote is never lost. - John Quincy Adams

An efficient bureaucracy is the
greatest threat to liberty. - Eugene J. McCarthy

An honest
politician is one, who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon
Cameron

In politics nothing is
contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli

It is not in the nature of
politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to
govern their fellowmen. - George Macdonald

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a
self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to
use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who
resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. - Thomas B.
Macaulay

Politics are a very unsatisfactory
game. - Henry Adams

Politics is the
art of obtaining money from the rich and votes from the poor on the pretext of
protecting each from the other. - Oscar
Ameringer

Politics is the conduct of public
affairs for private advantage. - Ambrose Bierce

Politics, as the word is commonly
understood, are nothing but corruptions. - Jonathan Swift

The bedfellows
politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not
watched the courtship. - Marcel Achard

The best
political community is formed by citizens of the middle class. - Aristotle

The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking
most often and in the loudest voice. - Theodore Roosevelt

The only thing that saves us from
the bureaucracy is its inefficiency. - Eugene J. McCarthy

The political
machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided
majority. - Will Durant

The trouble with this country is that
there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on
experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time. - Franklin
Pierce Adams

There is no act of treachery or
meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no
honour. - Benjamin Disraeli

Those
who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those
who are dumber. - Aristotle

What this country needs is more
unemployed politicians. - Angela Davis

When the political columnists say
'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every
intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. - Franklin
P. Adams

Saturday, 13 July 2013

A speech is a solemn
responsibility. The man who makes a bad thirty-minute speech to two hundred
people wastes only a half hour of his own time. But he wastes one hundred hours
of the audience’s time – more than four days – which should be a hanging
offence. - Unknown

All speech is vain and
empty unless it be accompanied by action. -Demosthenes

As a vessel is known by the sound,
whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether
they be wise or foolish. -Demosthenes

Austerity of
speech consists in speaking truthfully and beneficially and in avoiding speech
that offends. - Bhagavad Gita

Do not speak unless you can
improve on the silence. - Unknown

Don’t try to figure out what other
people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and
only thing you have to offer. - Barbara
Kingsolver

For every time we regret keeping
our tongue still there are about ten times we regret speaking up. - Unknown

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. - Confucius

If nobody said
anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend
upon the earth. - Sir Alan Patrick
Herbert

Let us say what
we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life. - Seneca

Not only to say the
right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at
the tempting moment. - George Sala

Of those who say nothing, few are
silent. - Unknown

Speak not harshly to anyone; Those
who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Painful indeed is language
violent; Blow for blow will pursue thee.- The Buddha

Speak what you think today in
words as hard as cannon-balls, and tomorrow speak what you think in hard words
again, though it contradict every thing you said today. - Ralph Waldo
Emerson

Speak when you’re
angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll
ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce

Speaking much is a sign of vanity;
for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deed. - Sir Walter Ralegh

Speaking without mindfulness is
dangerous. Therefore we must reflect on our intentions and formulations both
before and while we are speaking, and not talk too much. - Dagyab
Rinpoche

Speaking without
thinking is shooting without aim. - Unknown

Speech is a mirror of the soul: as
a man speaks, so is he. - Publilius Syrus

Speech is hard,
but who can keep quiet? -
Unknown

Speech is like the colour of a
flower and silence like its fragrance. - Unknown

Ten people who speak make more
noise than ten thousand who are silent.

The habit of common and continuous
speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is
going on in other people’s minds. - Walter Bagehot

Three things
matter in a speech: who says it, how he says it, and what he says, and of the
three, the last matters least.- Unknown

To say little is often to tell
more than to say a great deal. - Unknown

To say nothing,
especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. - Will Durant

We have two ears and only one
tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less. - Diogenes

When you have nothing to say, say
nothing. One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say. - Unknown

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the
suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You
listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he
says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are
still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that
listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want
to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time. For now, you
don’t interrupt. You don’t argue. If you do, he loses his chance. You just
listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can
bring transformation and healing. - Thich
Nhat Hanh

And once the storm is over, you
won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t
even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When
you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s
what this storm’s all about. - Haruki
Murakami

Monday, 8 July 2013

Sometimes you have to get to know
someone really well to realize you’re really strangers. - Mary Tyler Moore

Strangers are friends
you have yet to meet. -
Unknown

Your
beloved and your friends were once strangers. Somehow at a particular
time, they came from the distance toward your life. Their arrival seemed so
accidental and contingent. Now your life is unimaginable without them. - John O'Donohue

Saturday, 6 July 2013

Admitting that you need help does
not mean you are weak. In fact, it is a sign of strength, maturity and a
willingness to learn from others. - Unknown

Although men are accused of not
knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in
men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows
not of. - Jonathan Swift

Anyone can give up. It’s the easiest thing in the world to do, but
to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart,
that’s true strength.
- Unknown

Few
men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources
dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. - Richard
E. Byrd

Giving up does not always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that
you are strong enough to let go. - Unknown

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity. - Unknown

It is a sign of strength, not of weakness, to admit that you don’t
know all the answers. - John P. Lougbrane

Knowing what you believe and sticking by it is a sign of strength. - Unknown

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will
always spring up if thou wilt always look there. You have power over your mind
- not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus
Aurelius

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real
strength. - Ralph W. Sockman

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only
strength which can overcome adversity.- Unknown

Real strength is the capacity to yield when necessary and to resume
one’s position without compromising the ideal. - Unknown

Strength and
growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill

Strength does
not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. - Mahatma Gandhi

Strength does not come from
winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships
and decide not to surrender, that is strength. - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Strength doesn't
come from what you can do. it comes from overcoming the things you once thought
you couldn't. - Unknown

Strength is born in the deep
silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy. - Arthur Helps

Strength is when you have so much
to cry for but you prefer to smile instead. - UnknownStrength
isn't about bearing a cross of grief or shame. Strength comes from choosing
your own path, and living with the consequences. - Jennifer Armintrout

Strength shows, not only in the
ability to persist, but the ability to start over. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

We are always looking outside
ourselves for strength and confidence but strength and confidence comes from
within. They are there all the time. - Anna Freud

When you are at your lowest point, you
are open to the greatest change. Strength doesn’t come from what you can do, it
comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t do. - Unknown

Friday, 5 July 2013

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I
cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I
can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the
beginning. - Gandhi

Helping oneself and helping others are inextricably intertwined: the
more we help others, the happier we become, and the happier we become, the more
inclined we are to help others. - Tal
Ben-Shahar

Sometimes the best response in life is no response, and as long as
you are always true to yourself, you never have to explain or justify who you
are to anybody. - Unknown

In the blink of an eye, everything can change. So forgive often and
love with all your heart. You may never know when you may not have that chance
again. - Unknown

Whatever you refuse to face consciously, you must suffer
unconsciously. All your current suffering is the result of situations you have
refused to confront. - Dick Sutphen